Classic and not so classic horror movie reviews, horror movie polls and movie fun. Features on Golden Age of Hollywood horror actors and the great movies they made, bad B horror movies and Top 10 horror movie lists.
Last Friday on this blog I presented an article saluting some of the most iconic horror movie masks. My first pick chronologically was the “Red Death” costume Lon Chaney’s Erik dons in 1925’s The Phantom of the Opera. As chilling…
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Ask most people what the Frankenstein Monster looks like, and they’ll mention a green-skinned behemoth with a flat head, surgical scars on his forehead, and bolts on the sides of his neck. It matters little that this isn’t close…
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Let’s face it. Certain movie directors were/are horror specialists. Some set the tone for fright cinema (Tod Browning) or supplied shocks on shoestring budgets (Roger Corman). Some redefined the tropes of zombie flicks (George Romero). And some are busy…
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Today is the first day of October. The weather is turning a little nippy. Pumpkin patches are popping up across the countryside. And stores are urging you to stock up on enough candy to give the neighborhood kids a week-long…
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When one thinks of cinematic werewolves, the first character that generally springs to mind is Lawrence “Larry” Talbot (Lon Chaney, Jr.), the cursed protagonist introduced in Universal’s 1941 shocker The Wolf Man. Despite dying at that film’s end, Chaney went…
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Okay, here’s the drill. Today is Friday, June 13th. Which, of course, means we have to run at least one article spotlighting everyone’s favorite hockey-masked maniac, Jason Voorhees. So we’ve taken a still from 1989’s Friday the 13th Part VIII:…
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It’s one of the enduring mysteries of the Academy Awards nominating process. How do two performers who seem to have equal billing and equal screen time in a film wind up with one being tapped for the lead category and…
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Yesterday Demi Moore received her first Academy Award nomination for her startling turn in writer/director Coralie Fargeat’s “Beauty-and-the-Beast-Are-One” sci-fi tale The Substance. The Brat Packer-turned-megastar, who already won a Best Actress Golden Globe earlier this month, plays Elisabeth Sparkle (Moore),…
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You can’t keep a good vampire down…at least not at the box office, as writer/director Robert Eggers’ sanguinary shocker Nosferatu finished its Christmas week debut with a solid $40 million-plus performance, good for third place overall. That’s not too shabby…
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Let’s face it: for all their cuteness, babies can sometimes be a bit unsettling. I mean, they’re like tiny people who are always wanting something, and every once in a while you get the feeling there’s something going on behind…
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